#miriammakeba — Public Fediverse posts
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Miriam Makeba – Brand New Day
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-brand-new-day/
The song “Brand New Day” is part of the “Keep me in Mind” album, recorded in 1970. At that time, Miriam Makeba was in Guinea-Conakry, after an invite from President Ahmed Sékou Touré, following major changes in both her own personal life and politically within the USA.
Producer Lewis Merenstein suggested two Van Morrison songs […]
#Apartheid #Madiba #MiriamMakeba #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic
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Miriam Makeba – Brand New Day
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-brand-new-day/
The song “Brand New Day” is part of the “Keep me in Mind” album, recorded in 1970. At that time, Miriam Makeba was in Guinea-Conakry, after an invite from President Ahmed Sékou Touré, following major changes in both her own personal life and politically within the USA.
Producer Lewis Merenstein suggested two Van Morrison songs […]
#Apartheid #Madiba #MiriamMakeba #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic
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O mundo precisa de uma esquerda viva
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O mundo precisa de uma esquerda viva
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Miriam Makeba & Nina Simone – Thulasizwe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-nina-simone-thulasizwe/
Nina Simone collaborated with Miriam Makeba on the song “Thulasizwe / I Shall Be Released” and on May 21st, 1961, performed at Carnegie Hall for Church of the Master’s annual benefit concert.
"Two incandescent women musicians joined to give a concert […] at Carnegie Hall."
Their paths crossed for the first time in New York […]
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Miriam Makeba & Nina Simone – Thulasizwe
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-nina-simone-thulasizwe/
Nina Simone collaborated with Miriam Makeba on the song “Thulasizwe / I Shall Be Released” and on May 21st, 1961, performed at Carnegie Hall for Church of the Master’s annual benefit concert.
"Two incandescent women musicians joined to give a concert […] at Carnegie Hall."
Their paths crossed for the first time in New York […]
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://jompatott.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-jompatott-nu-disco-blend
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://jompatott.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-jompatott-nu-disco-blend
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https://www.europesays.com/afrika/15085/ Würzburg: Africa Festival Würzburg steht vor ungewisser Zukunft: Afro Project zieht sich zurück #Africa #AfricaFestival #Afrika #Coronavirus #Europa #Karibik #Kultur #MiriamMakeba #Würzburg #WürzburgerInnenstadt #YoussouN’dour
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Miriam Makeba Zaire 74
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-zaire-74/
Yes, she was part of the event, performing the famous Click Song (Qongqothwane). [...]
#70smusic #Congo #LiveMusic #MiriamMakeba #SoulPower #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic
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Miriam Makeba Zaire 74
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-zaire-74/
Yes, she was part of the event, performing the famous Click Song (Qongqothwane). [...]
#70smusic #Congo #LiveMusic #MiriamMakeba #SoulPower #SouthAfrica #OldAfricanMusic
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I am in a good mood, so here you go. One of my favorite songs of all time:
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I am in a good mood, so here you go. One of my favorite songs of all time:
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Miriam Makeba – The Naughty Little Flea
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-naughty-little-flea/
The “Naughty Little Flea” is a Jamaican folk song, a light Calypso, telling the story of a dog tormented by a flea. Miriam Makeba probably discovered it while working with Harry Belafonte.
An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba is a Grammy Award-winning 1965 album by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba. It was the second outcome of the […]
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Miriam Makeba – The Naughty Little Flea
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-naughty-little-flea/
The “Naughty Little Flea” is a Jamaican folk song, a light Calypso, telling the story of a dog tormented by a flea. Miriam Makeba probably discovered it while working with Harry Belafonte.
An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba is a Grammy Award-winning 1965 album by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba. It was the second outcome of the […]
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://djtron1.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-dj-tron-edit
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://djtron1.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-dj-tron-edit
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Credit @__african__motivation
Miriam Makeba speak 🗣
#africa #afrique #african #afro #afroamerican #blackamericans #__african__motivation #miriammakeba #westafrica #southafrica #northafrica #eastafrica #centralafrica #africanhistory #africandiaspora #europe #whitesupremecy
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A 16 year old US-American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help."I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school."
#ICE #Trump #StephenMiller #racism #Apartheid #deportation #MiriamMakeba
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A 16 year old US-American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help."I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school."
#ICE #Trump #StephenMiller #racism #Apartheid #deportation #MiriamMakeba
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Zaïre 74 – the African Artists
https://amf.didiermary.fr/zaire-74-african-artists/
A côté des stars américaines qui ont fait le show à Zaire 74, il y avait aussi de nombreux groupes et artistes africains, dont congolais pour ce grand festival, aussi connu sous le nom “Soul Power” d’après le documentaire diffusé en 2009.
“Ali, boma ye” (en français : “Ali, tue le”)
Pour mémoire, ce grand festival […]
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Continent
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://miriammakeba.bandcamp.com/album/pata-pata
https://open.spotify.com/track/2H6qEsJZ3r5SUq07VJBnpR
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Continent
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://miriammakeba.bandcamp.com/album/pata-pata
https://open.spotify.com/track/2H6qEsJZ3r5SUq07VJBnpR
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
Somi revisits Pata Pata
https://amf.didiermary.fr/somi-revisits-pata-pata/
This cover of Pata Pata is from "Zenzile, The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba," released, at the end of 2022, in which Somi reinterprets 17 songs of Mama Africa with a jazzy approach. At regular intervals, we hear excerpts from an interview with Mama Africa who explains in no uncertain terms what apartheid is. Somi brought […]
#Jazz #MiriamMakeba #Rwanda #SouthAfrica #Uganda #AfroJazz #Apartheid
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Somi revisits Pata Pata
https://amf.didiermary.fr/somi-revisits-pata-pata/
This cover of Pata Pata is from "Zenzile, The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba," released, at the end of 2022, in which Somi reinterprets 17 songs of Mama Africa with a jazzy approach. At regular intervals, we hear excerpts from an interview with Mama Africa who explains in no uncertain terms what apartheid is. Somi brought […]
#Jazz #MiriamMakeba #Rwanda #SouthAfrica #Uganda #AfroJazz #Apartheid
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Miriam Makeba & Hugh Masekela – Soweto Blues
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-hugh-masekela-soweto-blues/
Freedom song! Soweto Blues, released in 1977, is a protest song written by Hugh Masekela and performed by Miriam Makeba.
The song is about the Soweto uprising that occurred in 1976, following the decision by the apartheid government of South Africa to make Afrikaans a medium of instruction [...]
#Apartheid #Documentary #HughMasekela #Jazz #Madiba #MiriamMakeba #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
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Miriam Makeba & Hugh Masekela – Soweto Blues
https://amf.didiermary.fr/miriam-makeba-hugh-masekela-soweto-blues/
Freedom song! Soweto Blues, released in 1977, is a protest song written by Hugh Masekela and performed by Miriam Makeba.
The song is about the Soweto uprising that occurred in 1976, following the decision by the apartheid government of South Africa to make Afrikaans a medium of instruction [...]
#Apartheid #Documentary #HughMasekela #Jazz #Madiba #MiriamMakeba #SouthAfrica #AfroJazz
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« Aux côtés du président guinéen et de leaders indépendantistes, dont Kwame Nkrumah et Amílcar Cabral, la chanteuse sud-africaine et le leader états-unien du #BlackPower ont forgé leur pensée panafricaniste et contribué à faire le pont avec les luttes états-uniennes. »
#ElaraBertho | #UnCouplePanafricaniste : #MiriamMakeba et #StokelyCarmichael en Guinée
https://afriquexxi.info/Stokely-Carmichael-et-Miriam-Makeba-en-exil-et-en-lutte-chez-Sekou-Toure
#BlackHistory #KwameTure #PanthèresNoires #apartheid #GuinéeConakry #panafricanisme #livres @bookstodon
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Continent
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 The Click Songhttps://open.spotify.com/track/329ss78X6RxaEa6iN1SsH8
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Continent
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 The Click Songhttps://open.spotify.com/track/329ss78X6RxaEa6iN1SsH8
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks – The Best of Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks (1956-59, South Africa)
Our next spotlight is on number 227 on The List, submitted by platenworm. The Skylarks (fka The Sunbeams) were an all-woman South African jazz & jive vocal group, founded by the soon-to-be iconic Miriam Makeba upon request of Gallo Records. The Skylarks quickly became South Africa’s most popular group, but, after only 3 short years, they disbanded when Makeba left South Africa to further pursue her solo career. This compilation gathers 18 of the 100+ songs the band recorded together.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/02/21/miriam-makeba-the-skylarks-the-best-of-miriam-makeba-the-skylarks-1956-59-south-africa/
Want to skip straight to the music? This comp isn't on streaming platforms, but here's a YT playlist link to a similar comp (more links in the blog post, including Bandcamp): http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaxTNbbMJKB8QAUNlZ-Jen2D-_GHYsU1n
#TheSkylarks #MiriamMakeba #1001OtherAlbums #SouthAfricanMusic #SouthAfricanJazz #jazz #1950s #JohannaRadebe #MaryRabotapi #MummyGirlNketle #HelenVanRensburg #AbigailKubeka
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Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks – The Best of Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks (1956-59, South Africa)
As randomly chosen by survey[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 227 on The List, submitted by platenworm.
The Skylarks were an all-woman South African jazz & jive vocal group, founded in 1956 by Miriam Makeba upon request of Gallotone/Gallo Records. Makeba had already recorded for Gallo both solo and as part of The Manhattan Brothers, a very influential band in South Africa that was most active during the 1940s and 50s. Gallo was wanting a “girlie group” to compete with rival labels that had successful Black woman vocal groups whose style was modelled on popular close-harmony American trios from the 30s/40s/50s (such as the Boswell Sisters, Andrews Sisters, and McGuire Sisters, white groups whose style, in turn, drew on Black American music). Starting as a trio named The Sunbeams, the group brought their own unique sound to the style, adding a fourth member to perfect their harmonies, mixing in South African melodies and other elements, and singing primarily in Southern African languages including Xhosa (but also in English), with songs addressing social and political issues caused by apartheid in South Africa.
Within a couple of years, The Skylarks were South Africa’s most popular group, and had recorded over 100 songs. But, in 1959, Makeba’s star power skyrocketed with her lead role in the wildly successful South African jazz musical called King Kong (alongside Hugh Masekela, who she would later be married to for a few years), followed by her cameo in the anti-apartheid film Come Back, Africa. After only 3 short years, The Skylarks disbanded [edit: or did they? see the footnote[2]] when Makeba left South Africa to further pursue her solo career; Makeba would not return to her home country for over 30 years, effectively exiled by the South African government due to her vocal criticism of apartheid.[3]
Makeba became an iconic, internationally-known figure, for both her solo music and her civil rights activism. It’s a giant, fascinating rabbit hole to go down to learn more about her, and I’m very much looking forward to jumping in. But first, many thanks to platenworm for highlighting these early recordings with The Skylarks.
- I can’t find this particular compilation on streaming services, but similar comps can be found at:
- Discogs: Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks – The Best of Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks
- The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “You’re just a sinner, I am told”, “Be your fire when you’re cold”, “Make you happy when you’re sad”, and “Make you good when you are bad”, following surveys that had “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man”/“I am something that you’ll never understand”/“I’ll never beat you, I never lie”/“And if you’re evil I’ll forgive you by and by cuz”, “You, I would die 4 U, yeah”/”Darling, if you want me to”/”You, I would die 4 U”, and “I’m not your lover, I’m not your friend”/“I am something that you’ll never comprehend”/“No need to worry, no need to cry”/“I’m your messiah and you’re the reason why”. The third option was the winning selection, and so the survey result was translated as picking the album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “make”. ↩︎
- Edit: When updating The Index with the link to this post, I came across this obituary notice for Mary Rabotapi, which states that the group continued after Makeba left, and recruited Letta Mbulu as the new lead. It doesn’t indicate, however, if the band’s name changed. Discogs does list Mbulu as a band member, at any rate. ↩︎
- The line-up changed a few times and there’s conflicting info on the Internets as to who was all in the group, but it seems The Sunbeams/Skylarks at least at some point included: Miriam Makeba, Mizpah Makeba (? – unsure on last name, is Miriam’s half-sister), Johanna Radebe, Mary Rabotapi, Mummy Girl Nketle, Helen van Rensburg, and Abigail Kubeka, with additional vocals by Nomonde Sihawu and Sam Ngakone. Discogs also lists Letta Mbulu as a member – see above footnote for an explanation on that. I primarily got my info via this post on the Soul Safari blog, as well as the liner notes for this comp that are written by Rob Allingham, former archive manager for Gallo Records. ↩︎
#1950s #jazz #ListenToThis #MiriamMakeba #music #SouthAfricanJazz #SouthAfricanMusic #TheSkylarks
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://linckoln.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-chopped-screwed
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://linckoln.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-chopped-screwed
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Ted Tocks Covers
Makeba
Originally posted on July 11, 2023
Remembering Miriam Makeba, who died on this day back in 2008
“I wanna hear your breath just next to my soul
I wanna feel oppressed without any rest
I wanna see you sing, I wanna see you fight
‘Cause you are the real beauty of human right” -
Omaggio a Miriam Makeba.
"Well, I want to pay tribute to my own musical role model. And I'm not gonna give you her name, nor the title of the song. Because if you don't know this song, I can ensure and guarantee you that you are not living on planet Earth"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbRgTaiOh_U
#AngéliqueKidjo #Musica #Music #Africa #Afrobeat #WorldMusic #MiriamMakeba #PataPata
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://linckoln.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-chopped-screwed
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://linckoln.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-chopped-screwed
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CloudbustingWithLaurenLaverne
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://linckoln.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-chopped-screwed
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CloudbustingWithLaurenLaverne
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Pata Patahttps://linckoln.bandcamp.com/track/miriam-makeba-pata-pata-chopped-screwed
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Ted Tocks Covers
Makeba
Originally posted on July 11, 2023
One year ago ‘Makeba’ by Jain came roaring back onto the global charts as a result of a Tin Tok trend. This piece of music is a dance sensation and a history lesson all in one. Listen. This song will move you.
“I wanna hear your breath just next to my soul
I wanna feel oppressed without any rest
I wanna see you sing, I wanna see you fight
‘Cause you are the real beauty of human right
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Homeland🎶 #Show #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ivj2i9BbyMoJmb0ZucUM2🎶 #KEXP #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Miriam Makeba:
🎵 Homeland🎶 #Show #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ivj2i9BbyMoJmb0ZucUM2🎶 #KEXP #playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg